In both Love Actually and The Kids Are All Right, characters have this deep connection to Joni Mitchell and talk about how life-changing her music was for them, going into the specifics of particular songs and albums.
Madonna's trash pop is never appreciated on that level.
What harry and lou are trying to do is they try to make their relationship not obvious and management will try to cover it but lou and harry drop hints just in case larry shippers give up. But they dont make it obvious they only make it obvious for the larry shippers who are smart